Definition of infinite in English:

infinite

adjective ˈɪnfɪnɪtˈɪnfənət

1Limitless or endless in space, extent, or size; impossible to measure or calculate.
无限的，无穷的；无边的；无法计量（或计算）的，无数的
the infinite mercy of God
上帝的无限仁慈。
the infinite number of stars in the universe
宇宙中无数的星星。
Example sentencesExamples
- You can't point to an infinite amount of things.
- Not to mention the seemingly infinite amount of equipment and crafting skills.
- Well, that left open an infinite amount of possibilities.
- We now have the potential to produce an infinite amount of energy from this clean-burning fuel.
- When you start out you have no money, no work and a seemingly infinite amount of time.
- It has a hydroelectric motor, so it can effectively draw infinite amounts of electric power from the water.
- Several of you wrote to correct our interpretation of the Special Theory that ‘to travel faster than light requires an infinite amount of energy’
- One problem with the current approach is that it implicitly assumes we can protect an infinite amount of information.
- In one split-second, it felt as though I had heard the words an infinite amount of times.
- That is, an infinite amount of energy would have to be expended, via the accelerating force, to reach the speed of light.
- Even though there are big surpluses, if you want this big tax cut, there's not an infinite amount of money.
- There are an infinite amount of universes, crossing one another like a grid.
- Since one can't draw a space/object of infinite size then one does the best to represent it.
- Moreover, a computer seems to have an infinite amount of patience and doesn't mind repeating lessons any number of times.
- He said there was an infinite amount of hope but not for us.
- Since there's not an infinite amount of money, we have to choose.
- An infinite amount of time means that all sorts of crazy things will happen.
- But even with an infinite amount of money, aging could not be conquered.
- I have an almost infinite amount to say about this subject, but it doesn't look like I'm going to have time to say it for a few days.
- We live on a tiny planet in a corner of a vast galaxy starred about with infinite space.
Synonyms
boundless, unbounded, unlimited, limitless, without limit, without end, never-ending, interminable, cosmic
measureless, immeasurable, fathomless, unfathomed, bottomless
extensive, vast
countless, uncountable, inestimable, indeterminable, innumerable, numberless, immeasurable, incalculable, untold, very many
great, vast, enormous, immense, prodigious, multitudinous
rare innumerous, unnumberable
1. 1.1 Very great in amount or degree.
  大量的；极度的
  he bathed the wound with infinite care
  他极为小心地清洗了伤口。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This makes for an infinite amount of music to check out.
  In response, Hubbard says that risk studies aren't usually based on cataclysms for which a bank would have to hold infinite amounts of capital.
  Now, being able to look at my toes while standing upright will have absolutely no use of course, but it will give me an infinite amount of satisfaction.
  Everything is in the gray area now; every decision must take into account an infinite amount of variables.
  She had made it clear that she was more than capable of being happy without him having to offer a helping hand, and that bothered him to an infinite degree.
  And there is an infinite amount of things to say, and reasons to apologize, and questions to ask.
  I guess it could be the infinite amount of raindrops that incessantly keep dropping onto me that sends me into this light bout of dizziness.
  There is one bank and a pyramid about 2 feet tall held together by an infinite amount of splinters and you will be taking some home with you whether you like it or not.
  They have a seemingly infinite amount of other style names here, but not that.
  It has a designer wood ceiling and is open 360 degrees to the infinite desert sky.
  The person I bumped into, who apparently had an infinite amount more grace than I did, managed to stay standing, and offered a hand to me to help me up.
  A tiny bit of soul is apparently of greater significance to the Almighty than infinite amounts of mindless body.
  This idea of refinement carried to an infinite degree then began to be extended to liquids.
  Given the infinite amount of stuff out there it's pointless to pretend that you can experience it all, but I think it's wrong to not be bothered and just ignore it all.
  She felt like her mind was a sponge - soaking up infinite amounts of information that she would probably never hear again.
  When I got back to London I seemed to find an almost infinite amount of ways to avoid coming back to my flat.
  Her dad used to call Claire ‘slow motion’ because she took an infinite amount of time at everything.
  Trust me, an infinite amount of people ask me what camera I use, and the advertising is surely worth more money than a measly 300 bucks or so.
  There are an infinite amount of potential developments - incremental or catastrophic - that we could be discussing.
  A believer in the need to perfect prioritisation, Mulligan says that with an infinite amount of work to get through, he has to make choices - both for work and personal life.
  Synonyms
  very great, immense, supreme, absolute, total, real
  endless, unending, unlimited
  informal no end of
2. 1.2Mathematics Greater than any assignable quantity or countable number.
  〔数〕无穷大的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mathematicians have established that there is an infinite number of such solutions of the Riemann equation.
  One is an abstract philosophical point: infinite quantities and classical decision theory don't mix.
  It is possible that a theory of quantum gravity might enable physicists to calculate what happens deep inside a black hole without having all mathematical quantities becoming infinite.
  The surprising answer is that there is an infinite number of Fibonacci numbers with any chosen number as a factor!
  Mathematicians divide infinite sets into two categories, countable and uncountable sets.
3. 1.3Mathematics (of a series) able to be continued indefinitely.
  〔数〕（级数）无穷的
  Example sentencesExamples
  He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
  An infinite series of contingent beings will be, to my way of thinking, as unable to cause itself as one contingent being.
  Brouncker's mathematical achievements includes work on continued fractions and calculating logarithms by infinite series.
  The original theorem was concerned with summing infinite series.
  He found square roots of numbers by use of an infinite series leading to an early investigation into continued fractions.
2Grammar
another term for non-finite
Example sentencesExamples
- In this case the modal auxiliary carries the tense, aspect and person; therefore, the verb that follows should be in its bare infinite, nonfinite form.
- What I cannot grasp is how to determine if a sentence is finite or infinite.
- The infinite noun functions as nominative and as indefinite.

noun ˈɪnfɪnɪtˈɪnfənət

the infinite

1A space or quantity that is infinite.
（空间或数量的）无穷大
beyond the infinite, the space traveller is transformed
Example sentencesExamples
- He also wrote on space and time, both of which he believed were finite, ‘proving’ his assertion with a paradox of the infinite.
- If you express this vibration - the frequency of love, in its true, unconditional sense, you will connect with the same frequency out there in the infinite.
- Since all of our experiences involve finite objects, we lack a point of reference for dealing with the infinite.
- An advertisement connects something with human desires; propaganda shapes the infinite into concrete images.
- When it looks up at the stars, then closes its eyes, shutting itself off from its surroundings, it evokes in the viewer a longing for the infinite.
- The aggressive people of the world are identifying with something less than infinity, and thus they are arrayed against the infinite.
- With big canvases, these painters evoked the infinite.
- The infusion of space and time into memory creates a world-space for an intersubjective opening onto the infinite.
- At the same time, there was an exhilarating account of the infinite in Georg Cantor's set theory.
- Hers is the ‘true love’ defined by Fichte that rejects any object whatever in order that it may launch into the infinite.
- The very idea of God is a limitation on the infinite.
- Eventually, exception to the actual infinite became exception to the idea that the infinite could be a legitimate object of mathematical study at all.
- Aristotle famously rejects the infinite in mathematics and in physics, with some notable exceptions.
- A livelier scientific curiosity, one is inclined to think, might lead not to infinite regress but to progress toward the infinite.
- If God is incorporeal, Newton determined that God must be everywhere, pervading the infinite.
- The Petronas Towers are placed on a central axis, framing a doorway to the infinite with the skybridge.
- His reality was becoming his dreams and vice versa in an existence that eschewed the infinite in favor of the temporal and transient.
- It is more complicated than the other axioms, and involves the infinite in a fundamental way.
- He discusses the infinite, distinguishing between the potentially infinite and the actual infinite.
1. 1.1the Infinite God.
  intimations of the infinite
  Example sentencesExamples
  He claimed to be able to see things with greater clarity than ever before in his life and that he had touched the face of the infinite.
  You can see this brush of the infinite on the faces of anyone's who's mourning, even on the face of one who considers himself an agnostic, or an atheist.
  For Hooker, the joy of human encounter with the world lies in that the created order issues forth a call of the infinite.
  A man is no more than an ant in the presence of the infinite.
  Nothing finite, nothing bound up in this world, can compare to the infinite.

Derivatives

infiniteness

nounˈɪnfɪnətnəsˈɪnf(ə)nətnəs

The infiniteness of the threat has in some way broken every limit.
Example sentencesExamples
- When the western frontier's apparent boundlessness was revealed as only ostensible - when lines were measured and laid down across it, disproving its infiniteness - this escape route was cut off.
- Some philosophers believe there is only one thing unending beyond death and the inconceivable infiniteness of the universe.
- Since Islam forbids human representation in art, some artists create stylized human and animal forms along with geometric shapes and patterns to imply the infiniteness of God.
- However, Galileo avoided open speculation about its possible infiniteness, as that question had been used to persecute Giordano Bruno.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin infinitus, from in- 'not' + finitus 'finished, finite' (see finite).

Definition of infinite in US English:

infinite

adjectiveˈɪnfənətˈinfənət

1Limitless or endless in space, extent, or size; impossible to measure or calculate.
无限的，无穷的；无边的；无法计量（或计算）的，无数的
the infinite mercy of God
上帝的无限仁慈。
the infinite number of stars in the universe
宇宙中无数的星星。
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, that left open an infinite amount of possibilities.
- Since there's not an infinite amount of money, we have to choose.
- You can't point to an infinite amount of things.
- Even though there are big surpluses, if you want this big tax cut, there's not an infinite amount of money.
- But even with an infinite amount of money, aging could not be conquered.
- I have an almost infinite amount to say about this subject, but it doesn't look like I'm going to have time to say it for a few days.
- We live on a tiny planet in a corner of a vast galaxy starred about with infinite space.
- It has a hydroelectric motor, so it can effectively draw infinite amounts of electric power from the water.
- When you start out you have no money, no work and a seemingly infinite amount of time.
- In one split-second, it felt as though I had heard the words an infinite amount of times.
- There are an infinite amount of universes, crossing one another like a grid.
- Moreover, a computer seems to have an infinite amount of patience and doesn't mind repeating lessons any number of times.
- He said there was an infinite amount of hope but not for us.
- Since one can't draw a space/object of infinite size then one does the best to represent it.
- An infinite amount of time means that all sorts of crazy things will happen.
- Not to mention the seemingly infinite amount of equipment and crafting skills.
- That is, an infinite amount of energy would have to be expended, via the accelerating force, to reach the speed of light.
- Several of you wrote to correct our interpretation of the Special Theory that ‘to travel faster than light requires an infinite amount of energy’
- We now have the potential to produce an infinite amount of energy from this clean-burning fuel.
- One problem with the current approach is that it implicitly assumes we can protect an infinite amount of information.
Synonyms
boundless, unbounded, unlimited, limitless, without limit, without end, never-ending, interminable, cosmic
countless, uncountable, inestimable, indeterminable, innumerable, numberless, immeasurable, incalculable, untold, very many
1. 1.1 Very great in amount or degree.
  大量的；极度的
  he bathed the wound with infinite care
  他极为小心地清洗了伤口。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They have a seemingly infinite amount of other style names here, but not that.
  When I got back to London I seemed to find an almost infinite amount of ways to avoid coming back to my flat.
  Trust me, an infinite amount of people ask me what camera I use, and the advertising is surely worth more money than a measly 300 bucks or so.
  In response, Hubbard says that risk studies aren't usually based on cataclysms for which a bank would have to hold infinite amounts of capital.
  Her dad used to call Claire ‘slow motion’ because she took an infinite amount of time at everything.
  And there is an infinite amount of things to say, and reasons to apologize, and questions to ask.
  The person I bumped into, who apparently had an infinite amount more grace than I did, managed to stay standing, and offered a hand to me to help me up.
  I guess it could be the infinite amount of raindrops that incessantly keep dropping onto me that sends me into this light bout of dizziness.
  Now, being able to look at my toes while standing upright will have absolutely no use of course, but it will give me an infinite amount of satisfaction.
  This idea of refinement carried to an infinite degree then began to be extended to liquids.
  This makes for an infinite amount of music to check out.
  There is one bank and a pyramid about 2 feet tall held together by an infinite amount of splinters and you will be taking some home with you whether you like it or not.
  Everything is in the gray area now; every decision must take into account an infinite amount of variables.
  It has a designer wood ceiling and is open 360 degrees to the infinite desert sky.
  A believer in the need to perfect prioritisation, Mulligan says that with an infinite amount of work to get through, he has to make choices - both for work and personal life.
  A tiny bit of soul is apparently of greater significance to the Almighty than infinite amounts of mindless body.
  There are an infinite amount of potential developments - incremental or catastrophic - that we could be discussing.
  Given the infinite amount of stuff out there it's pointless to pretend that you can experience it all, but I think it's wrong to not be bothered and just ignore it all.
  She felt like her mind was a sponge - soaking up infinite amounts of information that she would probably never hear again.
  She had made it clear that she was more than capable of being happy without him having to offer a helping hand, and that bothered him to an infinite degree.
  Synonyms
  very great, immense, supreme, absolute, total, real
2. 1.2Mathematics Greater than any assignable quantity or countable number.
  〔数〕无穷大的
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is possible that a theory of quantum gravity might enable physicists to calculate what happens deep inside a black hole without having all mathematical quantities becoming infinite.
  Mathematicians have established that there is an infinite number of such solutions of the Riemann equation.
  Mathematicians divide infinite sets into two categories, countable and uncountable sets.
  One is an abstract philosophical point: infinite quantities and classical decision theory don't mix.
  The surprising answer is that there is an infinite number of Fibonacci numbers with any chosen number as a factor!
3. 1.3Mathematics (of a series) able to be continued indefinitely.
  〔数〕（级数）无穷的
  Example sentencesExamples
  He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
  Brouncker's mathematical achievements includes work on continued fractions and calculating logarithms by infinite series.
  An infinite series of contingent beings will be, to my way of thinking, as unable to cause itself as one contingent being.
  He found square roots of numbers by use of an infinite series leading to an early investigation into continued fractions.
  The original theorem was concerned with summing infinite series.
2Grammar
another term for nonfinite
Example sentencesExamples
- What I cannot grasp is how to determine if a sentence is finite or infinite.
- The infinite noun functions as nominative and as indefinite.
- In this case the modal auxiliary carries the tense, aspect and person; therefore, the verb that follows should be in its bare infinite, nonfinite form.

nounˈɪnfənətˈinfənət

the infinite

1A space or quantity that is infinite.
（空间或数量的）无穷大
Example sentencesExamples
- At the same time, there was an exhilarating account of the infinite in Georg Cantor's set theory.
- If you express this vibration - the frequency of love, in its true, unconditional sense, you will connect with the same frequency out there in the infinite.
- He discusses the infinite, distinguishing between the potentially infinite and the actual infinite.
- Eventually, exception to the actual infinite became exception to the idea that the infinite could be a legitimate object of mathematical study at all.
- He also wrote on space and time, both of which he believed were finite, ‘proving’ his assertion with a paradox of the infinite.
- With big canvases, these painters evoked the infinite.
- Since all of our experiences involve finite objects, we lack a point of reference for dealing with the infinite.
- The very idea of God is a limitation on the infinite.
- When it looks up at the stars, then closes its eyes, shutting itself off from its surroundings, it evokes in the viewer a longing for the infinite.
- The Petronas Towers are placed on a central axis, framing a doorway to the infinite with the skybridge.
- An advertisement connects something with human desires; propaganda shapes the infinite into concrete images.
- His reality was becoming his dreams and vice versa in an existence that eschewed the infinite in favor of the temporal and transient.
- Hers is the ‘true love’ defined by Fichte that rejects any object whatever in order that it may launch into the infinite.
- The infusion of space and time into memory creates a world-space for an intersubjective opening onto the infinite.
- A livelier scientific curiosity, one is inclined to think, might lead not to infinite regress but to progress toward the infinite.
- It is more complicated than the other axioms, and involves the infinite in a fundamental way.
- If God is incorporeal, Newton determined that God must be everywhere, pervading the infinite.
- Aristotle famously rejects the infinite in mathematics and in physics, with some notable exceptions.
- The aggressive people of the world are identifying with something less than infinity, and thus they are arrayed against the infinite.
1. 1.1the Infinite God.
  Example sentencesExamples
  You can see this brush of the infinite on the faces of anyone's who's mourning, even on the face of one who considers himself an agnostic, or an atheist.
  He claimed to be able to see things with greater clarity than ever before in his life and that he had touched the face of the infinite.
  A man is no more than an ant in the presence of the infinite.
  Nothing finite, nothing bound up in this world, can compare to the infinite.
  For Hooker, the joy of human encounter with the world lies in that the created order issues forth a call of the infinite.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin infinitus, from in- ‘not’ + finitus ‘finished, finite’ (see finite).

单词	infinite
释义	Definition of infinite in English: infinite adjective ˈɪnfɪnɪtˈɪnfənət 1Limitless or endless in space, extent, or size; impossible to measure or calculate. 无限的，无穷的；无边的；无法计量（或计算）的，无数的 the infinite mercy of God 上帝的无限仁慈。 the infinite number of stars in the universe 宇宙中无数的星星。 Example sentencesExamples You can't point to an infinite amount of things. Not to mention the seemingly infinite amount of equipment and crafting skills. Well, that left open an infinite amount of possibilities. We now have the potential to produce an infinite amount of energy from this clean-burning fuel. When you start out you have no money, no work and a seemingly infinite amount of time. It has a hydroelectric motor, so it can effectively draw infinite amounts of electric power from the water. Several of you wrote to correct our interpretation of the Special Theory that ‘to travel faster than light requires an infinite amount of energy’ One problem with the current approach is that it implicitly assumes we can protect an infinite amount of information. In one split-second, it felt as though I had heard the words an infinite amount of times. That is, an infinite amount of energy would have to be expended, via the accelerating force, to reach the speed of light. Even though there are big surpluses, if you want this big tax cut, there's not an infinite amount of money. There are an infinite amount of universes, crossing one another like a grid. Since one can't draw a space/object of infinite size then one does the best to represent it. Moreover, a computer seems to have an infinite amount of patience and doesn't mind repeating lessons any number of times. He said there was an infinite amount of hope but not for us. Since there's not an infinite amount of money, we have to choose. An infinite amount of time means that all sorts of crazy things will happen. But even with an infinite amount of money, aging could not be conquered. I have an almost infinite amount to say about this subject, but it doesn't look like I'm going to have time to say it for a few days. We live on a tiny planet in a corner of a vast galaxy starred about with infinite space. Synonyms boundless, unbounded, unlimited, limitless, without limit, without end, never-ending, interminable, cosmic measureless, immeasurable, fathomless, unfathomed, bottomless extensive, vast countless, uncountable, inestimable, indeterminable, innumerable, numberless, immeasurable, incalculable, untold, very many great, vast, enormous, immense, prodigious, multitudinous rare innumerous, unnumberable 1.1 Very great in amount or degree. 大量的；极度的 he bathed the wound with infinite care 他极为小心地清洗了伤口。 Example sentencesExamples This makes for an infinite amount of music to check out. In response, Hubbard says that risk studies aren't usually based on cataclysms for which a bank would have to hold infinite amounts of capital. Now, being able to look at my toes while standing upright will have absolutely no use of course, but it will give me an infinite amount of satisfaction. Everything is in the gray area now; every decision must take into account an infinite amount of variables. She had made it clear that she was more than capable of being happy without him having to offer a helping hand, and that bothered him to an infinite degree. And there is an infinite amount of things to say, and reasons to apologize, and questions to ask. I guess it could be the infinite amount of raindrops that incessantly keep dropping onto me that sends me into this light bout of dizziness. There is one bank and a pyramid about 2 feet tall held together by an infinite amount of splinters and you will be taking some home with you whether you like it or not. They have a seemingly infinite amount of other style names here, but not that. It has a designer wood ceiling and is open 360 degrees to the infinite desert sky. The person I bumped into, who apparently had an infinite amount more grace than I did, managed to stay standing, and offered a hand to me to help me up. A tiny bit of soul is apparently of greater significance to the Almighty than infinite amounts of mindless body. This idea of refinement carried to an infinite degree then began to be extended to liquids. Given the infinite amount of stuff out there it's pointless to pretend that you can experience it all, but I think it's wrong to not be bothered and just ignore it all. She felt like her mind was a sponge - soaking up infinite amounts of information that she would probably never hear again. When I got back to London I seemed to find an almost infinite amount of ways to avoid coming back to my flat. Her dad used to call Claire ‘slow motion’ because she took an infinite amount of time at everything. Trust me, an infinite amount of people ask me what camera I use, and the advertising is surely worth more money than a measly 300 bucks or so. There are an infinite amount of potential developments - incremental or catastrophic - that we could be discussing. A believer in the need to perfect prioritisation, Mulligan says that with an infinite amount of work to get through, he has to make choices - both for work and personal life. Synonyms very great, immense, supreme, absolute, total, real endless, unending, unlimited informal no end of 1.2Mathematics Greater than any assignable quantity or countable number. 〔数〕无穷大的 Example sentencesExamples Mathematicians have established that there is an infinite number of such solutions of the Riemann equation. One is an abstract philosophical point: infinite quantities and classical decision theory don't mix. It is possible that a theory of quantum gravity might enable physicists to calculate what happens deep inside a black hole without having all mathematical quantities becoming infinite. The surprising answer is that there is an infinite number of Fibonacci numbers with any chosen number as a factor! Mathematicians divide infinite sets into two categories, countable and uncountable sets. 1.3Mathematics (of a series) able to be continued indefinitely. 〔数〕（级数）无穷的 Example sentencesExamples He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series. An infinite series of contingent beings will be, to my way of thinking, as unable to cause itself as one contingent being. Brouncker's mathematical achievements includes work on continued fractions and calculating logarithms by infinite series. The original theorem was concerned with summing infinite series. He found square roots of numbers by use of an infinite series leading to an early investigation into continued fractions. 2Grammar another term for non-finite Example sentencesExamples In this case the modal auxiliary carries the tense, aspect and person; therefore, the verb that follows should be in its bare infinite, nonfinite form. What I cannot grasp is how to determine if a sentence is finite or infinite. The infinite noun functions as nominative and as indefinite. noun ˈɪnfɪnɪtˈɪnfənət the infinite 1A space or quantity that is infinite. （空间或数量的）无穷大 beyond the infinite, the space traveller is transformed Example sentencesExamples He also wrote on space and time, both of which he believed were finite, ‘proving’ his assertion with a paradox of the infinite. If you express this vibration - the frequency of love, in its true, unconditional sense, you will connect with the same frequency out there in the infinite. Since all of our experiences involve finite objects, we lack a point of reference for dealing with the infinite. An advertisement connects something with human desires; propaganda shapes the infinite into concrete images. When it looks up at the stars, then closes its eyes, shutting itself off from its surroundings, it evokes in the viewer a longing for the infinite. The aggressive people of the world are identifying with something less than infinity, and thus they are arrayed against the infinite. With big canvases, these painters evoked the infinite. The infusion of space and time into memory creates a world-space for an intersubjective opening onto the infinite. At the same time, there was an exhilarating account of the infinite in Georg Cantor's set theory. Hers is the ‘true love’ defined by Fichte that rejects any object whatever in order that it may launch into the infinite. The very idea of God is a limitation on the infinite. Eventually, exception to the actual infinite became exception to the idea that the infinite could be a legitimate object of mathematical study at all. Aristotle famously rejects the infinite in mathematics and in physics, with some notable exceptions. A livelier scientific curiosity, one is inclined to think, might lead not to infinite regress but to progress toward the infinite. If God is incorporeal, Newton determined that God must be everywhere, pervading the infinite. The Petronas Towers are placed on a central axis, framing a doorway to the infinite with the skybridge. His reality was becoming his dreams and vice versa in an existence that eschewed the infinite in favor of the temporal and transient. It is more complicated than the other axioms, and involves the infinite in a fundamental way. He discusses the infinite, distinguishing between the potentially infinite and the actual infinite. 1.1the Infinite God. intimations of the infinite Example sentencesExamples He claimed to be able to see things with greater clarity than ever before in his life and that he had touched the face of the infinite. You can see this brush of the infinite on the faces of anyone's who's mourning, even on the face of one who considers himself an agnostic, or an atheist. For Hooker, the joy of human encounter with the world lies in that the created order issues forth a call of the infinite. A man is no more than an ant in the presence of the infinite. Nothing finite, nothing bound up in this world, can compare to the infinite. Derivatives infiniteness nounˈɪnfɪnətnəsˈɪnf(ə)nətnəs The infiniteness of the threat has in some way broken every limit. Example sentencesExamples When the western frontier's apparent boundlessness was revealed as only ostensible - when lines were measured and laid down across it, disproving its infiniteness - this escape route was cut off. Some philosophers believe there is only one thing unending beyond death and the inconceivable infiniteness of the universe. Since Islam forbids human representation in art, some artists create stylized human and animal forms along with geometric shapes and patterns to imply the infiniteness of God. However, Galileo avoided open speculation about its possible infiniteness, as that question had been used to persecute Giordano Bruno. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin infinitus, from in- 'not' + finitus 'finished, finite' (see finite). Definition of infinite in US English: infinite adjectiveˈɪnfənətˈinfənət 1Limitless or endless in space, extent, or size; impossible to measure or calculate. 无限的，无穷的；无边的；无法计量（或计算）的，无数的 the infinite mercy of God 上帝的无限仁慈。 the infinite number of stars in the universe 宇宙中无数的星星。 Example sentencesExamples Well, that left open an infinite amount of possibilities. Since there's not an infinite amount of money, we have to choose. You can't point to an infinite amount of things. Even though there are big surpluses, if you want this big tax cut, there's not an infinite amount of money. But even with an infinite amount of money, aging could not be conquered. I have an almost infinite amount to say about this subject, but it doesn't look like I'm going to have time to say it for a few days. We live on a tiny planet in a corner of a vast galaxy starred about with infinite space. It has a hydroelectric motor, so it can effectively draw infinite amounts of electric power from the water. When you start out you have no money, no work and a seemingly infinite amount of time. In one split-second, it felt as though I had heard the words an infinite amount of times. There are an infinite amount of universes, crossing one another like a grid. Moreover, a computer seems to have an infinite amount of patience and doesn't mind repeating lessons any number of times. He said there was an infinite amount of hope but not for us. Since one can't draw a space/object of infinite size then one does the best to represent it. An infinite amount of time means that all sorts of crazy things will happen. Not to mention the seemingly infinite amount of equipment and crafting skills. That is, an infinite amount of energy would have to be expended, via the accelerating force, to reach the speed of light. Several of you wrote to correct our interpretation of the Special Theory that ‘to travel faster than light requires an infinite amount of energy’ We now have the potential to produce an infinite amount of energy from this clean-burning fuel. One problem with the current approach is that it implicitly assumes we can protect an infinite amount of information. Synonyms boundless, unbounded, unlimited, limitless, without limit, without end, never-ending, interminable, cosmic countless, uncountable, inestimable, indeterminable, innumerable, numberless, immeasurable, incalculable, untold, very many 1.1 Very great in amount or degree. 大量的；极度的 he bathed the wound with infinite care 他极为小心地清洗了伤口。 Example sentencesExamples They have a seemingly infinite amount of other style names here, but not that. When I got back to London I seemed to find an almost infinite amount of ways to avoid coming back to my flat. Trust me, an infinite amount of people ask me what camera I use, and the advertising is surely worth more money than a measly 300 bucks or so. In response, Hubbard says that risk studies aren't usually based on cataclysms for which a bank would have to hold infinite amounts of capital. Her dad used to call Claire ‘slow motion’ because she took an infinite amount of time at everything. And there is an infinite amount of things to say, and reasons to apologize, and questions to ask. The person I bumped into, who apparently had an infinite amount more grace than I did, managed to stay standing, and offered a hand to me to help me up. I guess it could be the infinite amount of raindrops that incessantly keep dropping onto me that sends me into this light bout of dizziness. Now, being able to look at my toes while standing upright will have absolutely no use of course, but it will give me an infinite amount of satisfaction. This idea of refinement carried to an infinite degree then began to be extended to liquids. This makes for an infinite amount of music to check out. There is one bank and a pyramid about 2 feet tall held together by an infinite amount of splinters and you will be taking some home with you whether you like it or not. Everything is in the gray area now; every decision must take into account an infinite amount of variables. It has a designer wood ceiling and is open 360 degrees to the infinite desert sky. A believer in the need to perfect prioritisation, Mulligan says that with an infinite amount of work to get through, he has to make choices - both for work and personal life. A tiny bit of soul is apparently of greater significance to the Almighty than infinite amounts of mindless body. There are an infinite amount of potential developments - incremental or catastrophic - that we could be discussing. Given the infinite amount of stuff out there it's pointless to pretend that you can experience it all, but I think it's wrong to not be bothered and just ignore it all. She felt like her mind was a sponge - soaking up infinite amounts of information that she would probably never hear again. She had made it clear that she was more than capable of being happy without him having to offer a helping hand, and that bothered him to an infinite degree. Synonyms very great, immense, supreme, absolute, total, real 1.2Mathematics Greater than any assignable quantity or countable number. 〔数〕无穷大的 Example sentencesExamples It is possible that a theory of quantum gravity might enable physicists to calculate what happens deep inside a black hole without having all mathematical quantities becoming infinite. Mathematicians have established that there is an infinite number of such solutions of the Riemann equation. Mathematicians divide infinite sets into two categories, countable and uncountable sets. One is an abstract philosophical point: infinite quantities and classical decision theory don't mix. The surprising answer is that there is an infinite number of Fibonacci numbers with any chosen number as a factor! 1.3Mathematics (of a series) able to be continued indefinitely. 〔数〕（级数）无穷的 Example sentencesExamples He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series. Brouncker's mathematical achievements includes work on continued fractions and calculating logarithms by infinite series. An infinite series of contingent beings will be, to my way of thinking, as unable to cause itself as one contingent being. He found square roots of numbers by use of an infinite series leading to an early investigation into continued fractions. The original theorem was concerned with summing infinite series. 2Grammar another term for nonfinite Example sentencesExamples What I cannot grasp is how to determine if a sentence is finite or infinite. The infinite noun functions as nominative and as indefinite. In this case the modal auxiliary carries the tense, aspect and person; therefore, the verb that follows should be in its bare infinite, nonfinite form. nounˈɪnfənətˈinfənət the infinite 1A space or quantity that is infinite. （空间或数量的）无穷大 Example sentencesExamples At the same time, there was an exhilarating account of the infinite in Georg Cantor's set theory. If you express this vibration - the frequency of love, in its true, unconditional sense, you will connect with the same frequency out there in the infinite. He discusses the infinite, distinguishing between the potentially infinite and the actual infinite. Eventually, exception to the actual infinite became exception to the idea that the infinite could be a legitimate object of mathematical study at all. He also wrote on space and time, both of which he believed were finite, ‘proving’ his assertion with a paradox of the infinite. With big canvases, these painters evoked the infinite. Since all of our experiences involve finite objects, we lack a point of reference for dealing with the infinite. The very idea of God is a limitation on the infinite. When it looks up at the stars, then closes its eyes, shutting itself off from its surroundings, it evokes in the viewer a longing for the infinite. The Petronas Towers are placed on a central axis, framing a doorway to the infinite with the skybridge. An advertisement connects something with human desires; propaganda shapes the infinite into concrete images. His reality was becoming his dreams and vice versa in an existence that eschewed the infinite in favor of the temporal and transient. Hers is the ‘true love’ defined by Fichte that rejects any object whatever in order that it may launch into the infinite. The infusion of space and time into memory creates a world-space for an intersubjective opening onto the infinite. A livelier scientific curiosity, one is inclined to think, might lead not to infinite regress but to progress toward the infinite. It is more complicated than the other axioms, and involves the infinite in a fundamental way. If God is incorporeal, Newton determined that God must be everywhere, pervading the infinite. Aristotle famously rejects the infinite in mathematics and in physics, with some notable exceptions. The aggressive people of the world are identifying with something less than infinity, and thus they are arrayed against the infinite. 1.1the Infinite God. Example sentencesExamples You can see this brush of the infinite on the faces of anyone's who's mourning, even on the face of one who considers himself an agnostic, or an atheist. He claimed to be able to see things with greater clarity than ever before in his life and that he had touched the face of the infinite. A man is no more than an ant in the presence of the infinite. Nothing finite, nothing bound up in this world, can compare to the infinite. For Hooker, the joy of human encounter with the world lies in that the created order issues forth a call of the infinite. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin infinitus, from in- ‘not’ + finitus ‘finished, finite’ (see finite).
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